Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more years of history, of which one should be American history and one the history of another country or countries and another time...
...American colleges and universities--both on the graduate and undergraduate level--will suffer from an acute shortage of teachers over the next ten years "unless something miraculous happens," Elder commented. This problem is not anyone's fault, he added, but merely a result of the vast numbers of "war babies" who will be reaching college age in the coming years...
...support an organization devoted to good theatre on a full-scale basis. An eight-week lease on life may be time enough to enable the Repertory to gain enough patronage to make it possible to open next fall. The remaining two productions, announced in its schedule are both American premieres of comedies by well-known European dramatists. If R.B.I. stays in business both will open on schedule; with luck, they will stir up enough interest to set the company on its feet...
...refreshing to talk with a person who reflects this attitude--which some cynics attribute only to "the folk." Pete Seeger is proud of the fact that he is part of the American folk, although he is probably one of the few Exeter and Harvard students to admit it. No matter how you feel about Seeger's political opinions, it is difficult to deny that his convictions are formulated from a genuine love of the human race...
...most important contribution to folksinging, he feels, is the interest he stirs up. "I'm just part of a broad pattern, one of the most important things in American life. The most important thing about folksinging is not the concerts I gave last year, but the million people who bought guitars...